Principal Data Lead - Remote

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Principal Data Lead for a remote or hybrid position with a Financial Services Consulting Firm located in Scottsdale, AZ or Raleigh, NC. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity.

Compensation: $150.00 - $160.00 per hour, W2, based on qualifications

Position Overview:
This is a hands-on Lead Solutions Architect role for a candidate who designs, builds, and leads. As a working architect, you will spend a significant share of your time in the platforms themselves, configuring and extending Dynamics 365 Project Operations and Finance & Operations, modeling data in Dataverse and the Enterprise Data Warehouse, writing and reviewing transformation code, and tuning Power BI semantic models. You will lead a team of developers, data engineers, and analysts, setting the technical direction and owning design standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead technical architect for Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Finance & Operations and Dataverse, owning the end-to-end solution design
• Personally design and build data models, entities, integrations, workflows and extensions, and resolve complex configuration, performance and data issues
• Design and implement integrations between Dynamics 365, the Data Warehouse and other enterprise systems using Dataverse, Azure Data Factory, Fabric pipelines, APIs and the Power Platform
• Review and approve customizations, extensions and ALM practices (solution layering, source control, environment strategy and deployment pipelines)
• Translate business processes in finance, project delivery and operations into sound, maintainable system designs
• Own the architecture of the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Microsoft Fabric environment, including lakehouse and warehouse layers, dimensional models and data marts
• Build and review ingestion and transformation pipelines, SQL, notebooks and stored procedures
• Design dimensional and semantic models (facts, dimensions, conformed dimensions, slowly changing dimensions) that serve Power BI and AI workloads consistently
• Architect Power BI semantic models, dataflows, row-level security and deployment pipelines, and set performance and reuse standards for reports and dashboards
• Establish and maintain end-to-end data lineage from source systems through to Power BI reports and AI models
• Define, document and enforce design standards including naming conventions, modeling patterns, and coding standards
• Lead, hire, coach and develop a team of Dynamics developers, data engineers and BI developers
• Design the data foundations that AI and machine learning solutions depend on, ensuring governed, well-lineaged and high-quality data feeds

Primary Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in solution, data or analytics architecture, including recent, direct build experience (not solely oversight)
• Deep hands-on experience with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and/or Project Operations, Dataverse and the Power Platform
• Strong hands-on expertise in data warehouse design and engineering: dimensional modeling, SQL, ETL/ELT pipelines, and Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse/SQL
• Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining data lineage, metadata management and source-to-target documentation
• Proven track record of defining and enforcing design and coding standards through design reviews and code reviews
• 3+ years of experience directly managing technical staff, including hiring, coaching and performance management
• Advanced Power BI skills, including semantic modeling, DAX, row-level security and deployment pipelines

Desired Skills:

• Microsoft certifications such as Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert, Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Experience with Microsoft Purview or other data catalog and lineage tools
• Experience in a professional services or project-based business
• Exposure to AI and machine learning data pipelines and responsible AI governance

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all of our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.